Re: BUG: corrupted list in cpu_stop_queue_work

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 10:24:52 EST


On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:15:54PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2018/07/09 22:32, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >> >From d6f24d6eecd79836502527624f8086f4e3e4c331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 15:58:44 +0900
> >> Subject: [PATCH] shmem: Fix crash upon xas_store() failure.
> >>
> >> syzbot is reporting list corruption [1]. This is because xas_store() from
> >> shmem_add_to_page_cache() is not handling memory allocation failure. Fix
> >> this by checking xas_error() after xas_store().
> >
> > I have no idea why you wrote this patch on Monday when I already said
> > I knew what the problem was on Friday, fixed the problem and pushed it
> > out to my git tree on Saturday.
> >
>
> Because syzbot found a C reproducer on 2018/07/09 02:29 UTC, and your fix was
> not in time for a kernel version syzbot was testing, and you were not listed
> as a recipient of this bug, and I didn't know you already fixed this bug.
>
> Anyway, linux-next-20180709 still does not have this fix.
> What is the title of your fix you pushed on Saturday?

I folded it into shmem: Convert shmem_add_to_page_cache to XArray.
I can see it's fixed in today's linux-next. I fixed it differently
from the way you fixed it, so if you're looking for an xas_error check
after xas_store, you won't find it.